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Quotation from Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is in their person that we become aware of human misery; we are filled with sympathy; and the result of this mood is general benevolence, philanthropy”
Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Ethical Reflections', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897)
The contrast between suffering felt in oneself, which breeds envy, and suffering perceived in others, which breeds compassion.
Citation: "It is in their person that we become aware of human misery; we are filled with sympathy; and the result of this mood is general benevolence, philanthropy" — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Ethical Reflections', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897). (id essays-and-aphorisms-q12)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
